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Escobar became a shop steward but didn’t think of getting more involved in labor leadership until the early 2000s, when drivers twice crashed into his idling fire truck.

Rafael Rendon, a custodian at Disney’s California Adventure Park, has talked to fellow SEIU-USWW members as a shop steward to see what matters most to them ahead of the Master Services Council’s upcoming contract negotiations.

"When I was there in the morning there it was a positive attitude around members and our shop stewards on site," he told BBC Radio Nottingham.

But weeks later, some drivers reported they were fired for joining the union, and a shop steward told BuzzFeed News that Silverstar had shut down its Michigan location months after.

The reader should know that my grandfather was a shop steward on the heavily unionized railroads of the early 20th century.